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more on American dominance of the Internet, redux
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:39:40 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Gerry Faulhaber <gerry-faulhaber () mchsi com> Date: October 15, 2005 6:32:54 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Fw: [IP] American dominance of the Internet, reduxYeah, I agree with Karl, but I think this ICANN dispute is largely irrelevant to the US/UN/ITU governance issue. In fact, I think the ICANN screwups are pretty small potatoes compared to the damage that alternative governance mechanisms could wreak. Granted ICANN has done some pretty bonehead stuff, but there is far, far worse possible...and we'll find that out to our immense chagrin
if the UN/ITU crowd takes over.What concerns me most about the governance issue is that nobody is actually
telling us how they will do the job better. They are simply saying theywant their finger on the button, too, and the US is being arrogant, blah, blah, blah. But none of the putative Internet controllers are telling us
what is being done wrong today and how they would do it better. Gerry Faulhaber ----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl () cavebear com> To: "Gerry Faulhaber" <gerry-faulhaber () mchsi com> Cc: "David Farber" <dave () farber net> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [IP] American dominance of the Internet, reduxOn Sat, 15 Oct 2005, David Farber wrote:I write because I ran across this recent interesting Economist article. Perhaps IPers would find it of interest:Internet governance America rules OKI wrote a note about that article in my blog - My feeling what that one could not give a lot of weight to the conclusions of that article because it was based an a significant misappreciation of what the current generation of internet governance institutions are doing and not doing.Here's the URL to that note: http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000195.html --karl--
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